This is going to be a great year for the long time partnership with Berk Technology and Tom Tang Racing who will be competing in the NASA Pro Racing series in California. This car comes back faster and faster every year and we can't wait to see what Tom has in store as he goes wheel to wheel with the fastest drivers on the west coast in his S2000 that is outfitted with the following parts from Berk Technology:-Berk Technology Custom lightweight 3" header back exhaust-Berk Technology HPC he...

Currently the tech crews at RRE and Berk are working double duty to get the RRE Berk Nissan 350Z V8 Turbo as competitive as possible for the 2014 season. We're keeping our 6.0 litter V8 and building a custom Garrett GTX4088R single turbo setup that will let us pass the magic 1000 hp limit. With that comes several other updates to make the car light and quick, including a C&R Racing Nascar dogbox transmission. More spec details will be released soon or simply swing by the shop if you can't wa...

We didn't just revive a car last season, we embarked on an incredible ride. If 2014 gets to be half as amazing as2013 was, it will become magical.Making all of 2013 happen would not have been possible without Bryan Min and the gang around BerkTechnology. Therefore thank you so incredibly much!!! Not many can understand the amount of effort that hasgone into this from Berk Technology's side, how much inspiration, knowledge and effort they have poured intothis. If it seems like we have had a prett...

- My crew said "It should feel like you're going to hit the wall, and don't worry if you hit it, we will fix the car", Carl says. Carl's first qualifying received a 76.5 score and it placed him in a preliminary 25thspot. The added power from nitrous that is fully controlled by the AEM Series 2 engine management system was a significant factor to be able to make big runs at the Toyota Irwindale Speedway. The nitrous system was tuned at Road Race Engineering and Carl uses Champion Iridium spa...

In Texas, the Berk Technology team with the
additional force from Road Race Engineering provided me with a car that handled
the super high temperatures during the four hour long Thursday practice like it
was nothing. It's what I call "The Berk Factor", proper prepared and tested. I
was able to get a lot of seat time and I tried a few new things/variations as a
driver and we always learn something new about what we can and cannot do with
our setup.
The Formula Drift course layout in Texa...

Instead of building the Nissan V6 motor with all forged internals and
turn up the Garrett turbo boost, that original plan changed radically and
instead we dropped an earth-shattering 6-litre aluminum GM V8 into the Z,
allowing us a much higher power limit for future development. This raw piece of
American muscle car heritage is really loud and powerful already but we plan to
turbo charge it to really create a beast!
Garrett has run the simulations needed to pick the ideal turbo...

In Florida, however, as fate would have it, what looked to
be another Top 32 by the end of the qualifying session turned into a 33rd
spot after a few teams protested the speed gun readings and the Berk team got
bumped down a couple of spots - a mere 0.2 points out of the Top 32!
"It almost feels like we got robbed". Carl explains. "We had
the scores from all drivers during the qualifying and we were in 31st
spot. Not great, but we were in and that means more practice time and
opportunit...

"It's a shame. I just
recently said in an interview that a dogbox is at the top of my upgrade list
but we haven't had a chance to get that done." Carl says and continues, "The 2nd-3rd
quick upshift is done in the easiest part of the entire Road Atlanta course,
but it has to go quick. When the 3rd gear synchro wears out, the
gearbox needs almost a second to allow the rpms to drop for the gear to go in.
That is enough of a pause that the car straightens out with the fast chassis
setup...

The team implemented a first few of many planned changes to
the car, one being a very basic fix; at
Long Beach, Carl Rydquist had to drift with a too short final gear ratio with
almost 20mph less wheel speed than desired in 3rd gear.
"This
is really the basics, and I had planned a much longer gear ratio but we ran
into a last minute unexpected problem that created a domino effect of
adjustments we had to do", Carl says. "In the end the shorter ratio I ended up
using caused some ...

With over
60 drivers present, many of whom are factory backed teams, reaching the main
event competition (Top 32) is an accomplishment on its own. With the diligent car preparation, combined
with focused testing and setup, Rydquist was able to navigate the challenging
Indy Car course laid out by the Formula DRIFT judges with a score high enough
to win a Top 32 spot during Friday's qualifying session.
Entering
the Top 32 elimination rounds, Rydquist faced 4th place qualifier...